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Those who know me and those who read my column know that staying steeped in gratitude is important to me. I find it impossible to sufficiently say thank you for all my blessings. Every single day in s...

Do you realize how powerful you are? If you’re like me, your first reaction might be Who? Me? If I had to list 100 adjectives to describe me “powerful” wouldn’t be on the list. Not many of us see ours...

This column might be viewed as Pattie standing on her soapbox. If so, so be it. I don’t do that too often. But with Thanksgiving knocking at our door this month I’m overwhelmed with the thought of peo...

One thing that’s a little difficult to fully understand is that many of the decisions we make today will impact us our entire life. Take the decision to have a baby. It just doesn’t affect our life wh...

There are some things we have to accept even when it goes against what we want and need. There are hard truths we try to accept, but we can’t because everything within us is screaming, “no, no.” The h...

Growing up, our local playground might not have had much, but we still flocked there. I didn’t like the seesaw because I was a featherweight compared to most other kids. That meant it was easy for the...

Every week across America, many weddings include more than the bride and groom. With so many second weddings the cast often includes the merging of new families. Often that means more step family rela...

Tell me who you are? Don’t tell me your name. In a word or two, tell me who you are. That was the question posed to us at one women’s retreat. One by one, we walked up front and were supposed to annou...

If you have an important goal, one that resides within you as something you need to do, how long would you keep at it without success? Mostly, when we think of famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli we t...

Like many others, I enjoy the Frank Sinatra song “My Way.” I most relate to the lines that say: “Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention.” I searched my memory bank for the regrets...